The Year In Words (The Reading List): 2017-

The one constant for a writer, besides actually, you know, writing stuff, is reading stuff. This is the running list of books that have been run through during the year, as well as years past.

How it works: The books are listed under the year completed, by when they were completed (older at the bottom). If it’s a book I have read before, it will be marked as “reread.” This also assumes I’m reading a “dead-tree edition” unless there is an “(E)” next to it, for an ebook edition, or an “(A)” to indicate an Audiobook. “GN” indicates Graphic Novels or comic omnibus editions.

Due to the nature of my habits and my “To Be Read” stack, I am no longer listing the ones in progress, only the books that have been completed.

*Authors: Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson, Thomas E. Sniegoski – No singular Editor credit on the book, only the individual authors listed. Seemed a bit silly to try cramming all of them into one column for the list. Predominantly read during December 2018, but not actually finished until late in the day on 1 January 2019, so it starts the new year’s list of finished titles.

2018: 63 (33 Audiobook)

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Jim Butcher: Brief Cases

Steven Pressfield: The War of Art (A)

Col. Chris Hadfield: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth (A)

Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner (Ed.): Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

Jim Butcher & Kerrie L. Hughes (Ed.): Shadowed Souls

Jim Butcher: Working for Bigfoot

Mickey Rapkin: Pitch Perfect

Brandon Sanderson: Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds

Brandon Sanderson: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystalia (A)

Ursula K. Le Guin: Steering the Craft

Martha Wells: Exit Strategy

Jim Butcher: Death Masks (A)

Kevin Hearne: Scourged (A)

Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark (A)

Carrie Vaughn: Kitty’s Greatest Hits

Kevin Hearne: Beseiged

V. M. Burns: Read Herring Hunt

Anna Kendrick: Scrappy Little Nobody (A)

Nicholas Sansbury Smith: Hell Divers (A)

Laurie Lamson (Ed.): Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

V. M. Burns: The Plot is Murder

Martha Wells: Rogue Protocol

Kevin Hearne: Staked (A)

Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor (A)

Catherynne M. Valente: Six-Gun Snow White

Mel Robbins: The 5 Second Rule (A)

Kevin Hearne: Shattered (A)

Chris Fox: Plot Gardening (E)

Martha Wells: Artificial Condition

John Scalzi: Fuzzy Nation (A)

Greg Renoff: Van Halen Rising (A)

Martha Wells: All Systems Red

Amy Poehler: Yes Please (A)

Jaye Wells: Deadly Spells

Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe (Ed.): Robots vs Fairies

Kevin Hearne: Hunted (A)

Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles (A)

Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (A)

Jim Butcher: Summer Knight (A)

Simon Winchester: The Professor and the Madman (A)

Lee Child: No Middle Name

Kevin Hearne: Trapped (A)

Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves: Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Susan Hill: The Woman in Black (A)

Tony Vanderwarker: Writing With The Master

H.G. Wells: The Island of Dr. Moreau (A)

Michael Crichton: The Great Train Robbery (A)

Ursula K Le Guin with David Naimon: Conversations on Writing

Kevin Hearne: Tricked (A)

Cherie Priest: Clementine

Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (A)

Fumio Sasaki, Eriko Sugita (trans.): Goodbye, Things (A)

John Scalzi: The Last Colony

Brandon Sanderson: Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener’s Bones (A)

Danielle Krysa: Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk (A)

Kevin Hearne: Hammered (A)

Jaye Wells: Cursed Moon

Cary Elwes: As You Wish… (A)

Ron Lieber: The Opposite of Spoiled (A)

Shawn Achor: The Happiness Advantage

John Scalzi: Don’t Live for Your Obituary

Charles Stross: Dark State

Alan Cumming: You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams (A)

2017: 55 (43 Audiobook)

Dan Wells: I Am Not a Serial Killer (E)

Philip K Dick: The Man in the High Castle (E)

Carrie Fisher: The Princess Diarist (A)

William McRaven, Adm. USN (Ret): Make Your Bed (A)

Neil Gaiman: Coraline (A)

Marshall Goldsmith: Triggers (A)

Brian McClellan: In the Field Marshal’s Shadow (A)

Haemin Sunim: The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down (A)

Kevin J. Anderson: The Dragon Business (A)

Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free (A)

Simon R. Green: Something From the Nightside (A)

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (A)

Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan (A)

Chuck Wendig: Damn Fine Story

Chris Bailey: The Productivity Project (A)

Neil Gaiman: Norse Mythology (A)

Brandon Sanderson: Steelheart (A)

Joe Haldeman: The Forever War

Jennifer Worth: Shadows of the Workhouse (A)

Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit

Anne McCaffrey: Dragonflight (A)

Jay Kristoff: Nevernight

Tim Powers: On Stranger Tides (A)

Tom Standage: A History of the World in Six Glasses (A)

Lisa TerKeurst: Unglued (A)

Charles Stross: The Fuller Memorandum

Richard Kadrey: Sandman Slim (A)

Mary Robinette Kowal: Ghost Talkers (A)

Mary Roach: Packing for Mars (A)

Matt Bird: The Secrets of Story (A)

Charles Stross: Empire Games

Brandon Sanderson: Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians (A)

Felicia Day: You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) (A)

Stephen King: The Gunslinger (A)

Sean Stephenson: Get Off Your ‘But’ (A)

Karen S. Wiesner: Writing the Fiction Series

Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter: Hamilton: The Revolution (A)*

Bob Proctor & Sandra Gallagher: The Art of Living (A)

Neil Fiore: The Now Habit (A)

Margot Leitman: Long Story Short (A)

Brian Kilmeade & Don Yeager: George Washington’s Secret Six (A)

Jaye Wells: Dirty Magic (E)

Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five (A)

Mary Roach: Grunt (A)

Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried (A)

Alan Cumming: Not My Father’s Son (A)

Grady Hendrix: Horrorstör (A)

Neil Gaiman: The View from the Cheap Seats

Jim Butcher: The Aeronaut’s Windlass

Richard Matheson: I Am Legend (A)

A Monster Calls: Patrick Ness (A)

John F. Kennedy: Profiles in Courage (A)

James A Owen: Drawing Out the Dragons (A)

Mary Robinette Kowal: Forest of Memory (A)

Hans Christian Anderson: The Snow Queen (A)

* Technically, I stopped listening during the “Annotations” part of the audiobook. It’s not that the material was bad, but it takes the notes out of context, and is better served by following with a copy of the text to understand what is being referenced.